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TERROR CREEK LOADOUT <br />Permit No. C-83-059 <br />Midterm Review <br />This is the midterm review findings document for the Terror Creek Loadout. The midterm review is required <br />under Rule 2.08.3 to be performed not later than the middle of each five year permit teen. Through this review, <br />the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology can require reasonable modifications to the permit so that the <br />permit application complies with the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal <br />Mining. Rule 3.02.2(4) requires that the amount of the reclamation liability bond be reviewed during the <br />midterm and adjusted, if necessary. <br />This findings document is divided into four sections. Section 1 describes the history of the loadout. An account <br />of the permitting and enforcement actions, including permit revisions, stipulations and enforcement actions, is <br />contained in Section I[. The reclamation liability bond information is in Section III. The final section contains <br />specific questions or comments that azose in the review of the permit application. <br />Section I -Mine Histo <br />The Terror Creek Company (TCC), a Colorado Partnership involving Oxbow Carbon & Minerals and Bear Coal <br />Company, is the permiee and operator of the Terror Creek Loadout. The loadout is located in Delta County, <br />between Paonia and Somerset, to the south of Old State Highway 133. The TCC Loadout is being operated as <br />an independent coal handling and loadout facility. TCC buys coal from various coal mining companies in the <br />general area for resale to international and domestic industrial customers. Approximately 13.6 acres have been <br />disturbed by the operation to allow storage, crushing and shipment of up to 500,000 tons of coal per yeaz. <br />The Terror Creek Company first approached the Division regarding permitting of the loadout in September of <br />1982. At that time the Division indicated that it was not cleaz whether or not a permit from the Division would <br />be necessary for construction, operation, and reclamation of an off-site coal loadout such as Tercor Creek. The <br />Division advised the company to operate in such a manner so as to be "in compliance on the ground" with the <br />Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act. <br />Subsequently, based on an opinion from the Attorney General's Office, it was determined that the Terror Creek <br />operation would require a permit. As a result of site visits on January 25, 1983 and February 2, 1983, the <br />Division advised the applicant regarding measures that would have to be taken, including submittal of a permit <br />application, in order to bring the operation into compliance with the requirements of the Act. <br />The initial Terror Creek application was submitted to the Division on February 14, 1983 and deemed complete <br />on February 23, 1983. Construction of the facility had been largely completed prior to submittal of the <br />application. <br />Plans for modifying the application to allow for a new access/haul road to connect the site with Highway 133 <br />were submitted on March 31, 1983. Public notice of the revised permit boundary was provided in the March 31, <br />1983 edition to [he North Fork Times., The Division issued a proposed decision for the initial permit application <br />